Lua Blanco

Birth Name: Lua Maria Blanco

Place of Birth: São Paulo, Brazil

Date of Birth: 5 March, 1987

Ethnicity: Brazilian [Portuguese, some Spanish, other]

Lua Blanco is a Brazilian actress, singer, songwriter, translator, and writer. She achieved success on the telenovela Rebelde, and as the lead singer of musical group Rebeldes.

Lua is the daughter of Maria Claudia Blanco and musician Billy Blanco Junior. She is the granddaughter of Billy Blanco, a successful bossa nova artist. She has an older brother, Pedro Sol, and four younger siblings, Ana Terra, Estrela, Daniel, and Sol. A picture of Billy with her family can be seen here.

Lua’s paternal grandfather was William Blanco Abrunhosa Trindade (the son of Professor Almerindo Cypriano Trindade and Rosalia Ramos Blanco Trindade). William was born in Belém, Pará, Brazil. Almerindo was the son of José Cypriano de Abrunhosa, who was born in Penela da Beira, Penedono, Viseu, Portugal; and of Romana Adelina Trindade. Rosalia was born in Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, the daughter of Raimundo Barroco and Adelaide Ramos Blanco.

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Genealogy of Lua’s paternal grandfather, William Blanco Abrunhosa Trindade –